This year, Residential Life is offering free MP3 players if eligible students apply by 5 p.m. Friday.

Students applying for housing renewals for next year at the Commons at ASU and certain wings of Cholla, Best, Hayden, Irish, Mariposa, Ocotillo and Sahuaro halls will be eligible to receive a free Apple iPod Mini or Dell Music DJ.

Passionate independent business owners committed to maintaining the vitality of Tempe have opened their doors and cleared their walls for the Tempe Final Friday Artwalk. Final Friday is a trip to the independent side of Tempe -- an escape from the corporate megaplex of Mill Avenue.

Sleeping on the ground, going without a shower for days and cooking meals with mice scurrying around the ingredients are just a few perks that go along with camping. Add in Leave No Trace ethics to the experience, and you've got a full-blown nature lover's paradise.

Butch Walker Self-deprecating rocker Location: Georgia Butch Walker loved heavy metal in his youth. He played in bands, but as he grew older so did his tastes. He then founded punk-influenced pop band Marvelous 3. That band had one huge single, "Freak of the Week," and then broke up.